How rude!

by John Kiernan

     
       
       
   
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A.   Sumptuous living

B.   Beginning of Lincoln`s quote about popular satisfaction
(11 words)

C.   Long-running PBS science show

D.   Straits

E.   Stigler`s Law of ___ ("No scientific discovery is
named after its original discoverer.")

F.   One way to get rid of a despot

G.   It`s a name! It`s an herb!

H.   British TV series set at 165 Eaton Place, Belgravia
(2 words)

I.   "__ for Fighting" (Elton John song, 3 words)

J.   Sinatra improv phrase from "Strangers in the Night"
(3 words)

K.   The Zealots and the Hash-Ishiim were early practitioners
of this radical technique

L.   Fox sitcom and a hip hop crew (2 words)

M.   Fibrous sponge

N.   First-year schoolers

O.   They were once the Houston Oilers (2 words)

P.   The reverse of abstraction

Q.   A member of the upper classes, especially one who
is elegantly dressed (Brit. slang)

R.   Book whose protagonist was Arthur Dent (5 words,
with "The")

S.   Image often burned or hung

T.   Mouth organ group

U.   In a faint

V.   Condoleezza Rice, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft
have headed this government group

W.   Search for underground water